Quotes by Joseph De Maistre
Joseph De Maistre
French diplomat and philosopher
Category: Politics | Philosophers
Lived from: 1753-1821
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A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.
French diplomat and philosopher 1753-1821
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All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.
French diplomat and philosopher 1753-1821
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Every country has the government it deserves.
French diplomat and philosopher 1753-1821
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False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.
French diplomat and philosopher 1753-1821
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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.
French diplomat and philosopher 1753-1821
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I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.
French diplomat and philosopher 1753-1821
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If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
French diplomat and philosopher 1753-1821
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In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.
French diplomat and philosopher 1753-1821
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In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.
French diplomat and philosopher 1753-1821
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It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
French diplomat and philosopher 1753-1821
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